{"id":10504,"date":"2021-05-11T10:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=10504"},"modified":"2021-05-11T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:22:54","slug":"the-u-s-defense-budget-is-too-damn-high-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=10504","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Defense Budget is Too Damn High | Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pentagon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"247\" \/>It&#8217;s a vicious circle the U.S. has yet to escape: more defense spending tempts over-extension around the world, which in turn is used to justify even higher defense budgets in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/us-defense-budget-too-damn-high-opinion-1589648\">The U.S. Defense Budget is Too Damn High | Opinion<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>4% of the world&#8217;s population, 40% of the world&#8217;s military spending.\u00a0 4% of the worlds population, 25% of the world&#8217;s prisoners.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a vicious circle the U.S. has yet to escape: more defense&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[523,57,72,601],"class_list":["post-10504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-military","tag-usa","tag-usa-usa-usa","tag-wtf","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}